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# FM PEKING 130330Z AUG 79

TO PRIORITY HONG KONG

TELEGRAM NUMBER 60 OF 13 AUGUST

INFO ROUTINE FCO, HK GOVT OFFICE LONDON,

YOUR TELNO.118:

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IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA - YUGOSLAV LOOPHOLE.

1. AFTER SOME INITIAL DIFFICULTY IN ARRANGEING APPOINTMENTS, FIRST SECRETARY MANAGED ON 10 AUGUST TO SEE GUAN ZONGZHOU, DIVISION DIRECTOR OF CONSULAR DEPARTMENT, MFA AND DUSAN GRUBOR, MINISTER-COUNSELLOR AT THE YUGOSLAVE EMBASSY, AND SPOKE AS

REQUESTED.

2. GRUBOR WAS DISMAYED THAT THE LIBERAL YUGOSLAV VISA PRO-

CEDURES (DESCRIBED IN SULLIVAN'S LETTER OF 29 MARCH TO SLE!GHT- HOLME) WERE BEING EXPLOITED IN THIS WAY, HE WOULD CHECK WITH BELGRADE TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY POSSIBILITY OF GRANTING VISAS ON A MORE RETRICTED BASIS. HE SUSPECTED THAT THIS WOULD BE DIFFI-.

CULT AS THE YUGOSLAV POLICY WAS TO ATTEMPT TO DO AWAY WITH THE

NECESSITY FOR VISAS ALTOGETHER, AND IN CASES WHERE THEY WERE CONSIDERED DESIRABLE BY THE SENDING COUNTRY (SUCH AS CHINA) TO ISSUE THEN WITH THE MINIMUM FORMALITY, HE ACCEPTEDN HOWEVER, THAT THE MEASURES WE WERE ASKING THE CHINESE TO ADOPT, WHICH. WERE APPARENTLY DISCRIMINATORY TOWARDS YUGOSLAV VISA HOLDERS, WERE JUSTIFIABLE, AND AGREED TO WARN VISA APPLICANTS THAT THE

GRANTING OF A YUGOSLAV VISA WOULD NOT IN ITSELF FACILITATE EXIT

FROM CHINA VIA HONG KONG. SULLIVAN ASSURED HIM THAT GENUINE VISITORS TO YUGOSLAVİA WOULD HAVE NO DIFFICULTY TRANSITING HONG KONG, BUT THEY SHOULD BE ADVISED TO OBTAIN VISAS FROM OUR

EMBASSY,

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GUAN